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Re: Launching Mac applications and passing parameters

I would guess the 'open' command would do what you want, you might want to 'man' that in Terminal for usage. 

Thanks, that works to launch the default application.

Do you also know, what's wrong with the following code snippet:

Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] {
"/Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/Preview",
"/Users/tom/test.png"
}); 

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Thanks in advance,
Tom


Michael Hall wrote: 

On Jan 7, 2006, at 8:56 AM, Thomas Singer wrote:

Hi,

Most likely this is a dumb question, but I searched google and could not find an answer: how do I run Mac applications and pass parameters (from Java)? I've tried something like

 Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] {
   "/Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/Preview",
   "/Users/tom/test.png"
 });

But that just opens the Preview application without opening the graphic. Is there a general way like "start foo.png" on Windows?

I would guess the 'open' command would do what you want, you might want to 'man' that in Terminal for usage.

Mike Hall        mikehall at spacestar dot net
http://www.spacestar.net/users/mikehall
http://sourceforge.net/projects/macnative





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